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Why go through all the effort to make a compatibility layer when they could just have a storefront with iOS native apps? Are there a significant amount of mobi
by dangus 3y ago
Why go through all the effort to make a compatibility layer when they could just have a storefront with iOS native apps?
Are there a significant amount of mobile app developers who only make Android versions of their apps and completely eschew iOS?
Out of those developers, what percentage generate a significant amount of revenue to provide royalties to Google? (I.e., I imagine there are plenty of open source and hobbyist apps that don’t make their way to iOS because they don’t have the budget to buy a Mac and pay Apple developer fees, but those are the types of apps that stand to make very few royalties from a potential Google iOS App Store).
- EspadaV9 3y agoIf you could only make one app, for Android, and know that it would appear on both platforms, that could swing developers to just target Android to save development costs. Reduces SDK cost, don't need to buy Apple hardware, only one set of testing required.
- solardev 3y agoSounds like a terrible experience for iOS users. They have different UI patterns, fonts, privacy APIs, etc.
- dangus 3y agoI feel like the developers that need to do that have already been using frameworks like React Native. Plus, if you target Android, you've got nowhere to go if you want to put your app on the web, while React Native gives you a path.